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Sign In. Ethics and climate policy: John Dryzek and Clive Hamilton. The anthropo.scene making up the 'world' with what we have on hand The anthropo.scene?

Ethics and climate policy: John Dryzek and Clive Hamilton August 28, 2014 by jeremy schmidt 1 Comment. 20Climate%20Change%20Vol1No1%20KCPF. Climate Change and Virtue: An Apologetic. NOAAClimate : Sea surface temperatures are ...
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Forecasters at the Climate Prediction Center haven’t declared El Niño conditions, even though the Niño3.4 index is currently around 0.5°C above normal, and has been for the past two months.

What’s the hold up? In short, we’re waiting for the atmosphere to respond to the warmer sea-surface temperatures, and give us the “SO” part of ENSO. SO what? The Southern Oscillation, that’s what.
IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. U.N. climate panel: Governments, businesses need to take action now against growing risks.

A U.N. report released Monday in Japan said global warming is affecting food and water shortages, economic livelihoods and raising the risk of wars.

(Reuters) The world’s leading environmental scientists told policymakers and business leaders Sunday that they must invest more to cope with climate change’s immediate effects and hedge against its most dire potential, even as they work to slow the emissions fueling global warming. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that climate change is already hurting the poor, wreaking havoc on the infrastructure of coastal cities, lowering crop yields, endangering various plant and animal species, and forcing many marine organisms to flee hundreds of miles to cooler waters.

Understanding the IPCC Reports. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the world’s foremost collection of climate scientists.

Throughout 2013 and 2014, the group will release its Fifth Assessment Report in four installments, highlighting the current state of the climate system and climate change, its environmental and socio-economic impacts, and mitigation strategies that can limit emissions. Here, WRI provides ongoing analysis of this groundbreaking climate change research—and its potential implications on communities, the economy, and the environment.

Infographic: The Global Carbon Budget. 12 Graphics that Contain Everything You Need to Know about Climate Change. Climate change is real, it’s here and it will be affecting the planet for a long, long time.

That’s the lesson of the latest iteration of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change‘s state of climate science report, released in its entirety on January 30. Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have now touched 400 parts-per-million—and greenhouse gas pollution generally shows little sign of slowing. In fact, pollution has outpaced even the worst-case scenario imagined by the IPCC as recently as 2007.

The following charts and graphics explain what that might mean for you, your children and many generations to come.
Book launch: Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change. Sea ice in broken sheets off the coast of Alaska in late April, 2005.

Flickr / U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Alaska Region. What is lost when the complexity of Arctic transformation is reduced to a few simple story-lines? Join us this Tuesday, 21 January, 12:00-14:00 at SEI HQ for a discussion with the authors.
Carbon report puts SA in the hot seat. A new report on carbon emissions shows that only 90 international entities are responsible for two-thirds of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the past 250 years.

A few are either based in South Africa or have listings on Johannesburg stock exchange ​the JSE. The nongovernmental Climate Accountability Institute investigated which companies had extracted the carbon-based fuels that have driven climate change. According to its report, 90 international entities have emitted 914-billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (every greenhouse gas is equated to carbon for easy calculating) in the past 259 years. The worst offenders are oil companies, with Chevron topping the list with 3.5% of all historical emissions.
Global Policy Journal - Practitioner, Academic, Global Governance, International Law, Economics, Security, Institutions, Comment & Opinion, Media, Events, Journal.

Jamie Clarke - 26th November 2013 Jamie Clarke points out that it is people’s value, rather than scientific knowledge are heart of the climate change debate, especially to skepticism. psychological evidence is provided.

Last Friday’s launch of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment report was met with significant media coverage and much activity in the climate change world – but will it change the mind of anyone not already supportive of the issue? At COIN we argue that climate change campaigners need to do more than explain the science: they need to inspire people by speaking to their values. The new IPCC report re-emphasises the link between human activity and climate change, a conclusion reached by most climate advocates many years ago, but one which deniers have rallied against. Against this backdrop it is understandable that advocates focus on louder and clearer messages about the scientific consensus on human induced climate change.

AAA Global Climate Change Taskforce. The Climate Disaster Bubbling in the Arctic. New research reveals that the amount of the potent greenhouse gas methane escaping from an area in the Arctic is over twice the amount previously estimated.

Methane burns as it escapes through a hole in the ice. (Photo: University of Alaska Fairbanks) For the study published Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience, researchers looked at the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, a 2-million square kilometer area off the coast of Northern Siberia, and used various techniques including sonar technology to measure the methane escaping.
Warsaw climate talks – final day live blog.

Fiona Harvey has listed the top football metaphors the Poles' choice of venue have wrought: One of the perils of holding a major international conference in a football stadium is that the assembled politicians and dignitaries see it as a prime opportunity to score some sports metaphors.

They don't get many such opportunities, given the dry nature of these long-running negotiations, so maybe they can be forgiven – but some of the comments were clearly own goals. Here's a selection of the finest:Donald Tusk, prime minister of Poland: "The match is won by the team. In order to win, players have to collaborate.
"Christiana Figueres, UN's top climate official: "There are no two sides, but the whole of humanity.
UN climate talks bogged down over CO2 cuts, aid, on last day. Delegates attend the Convention on Climate Change COP19 conference at the National Stadium in Warsaw on November 19, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel * Clear timetable to 2015 deal not expected * No major emissions goals set, funding not enough By Nina Chestney and Megan Rowling WARSAW, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Disputes over when rich and poor nations will set greenhouse gas targets and over climate aid to the developing world threatened to sink U.N. climate talks on the final day on Friday.

Green groups walk out of UN climate talks. Environment and development groups together with young people, trade unions and social movements walked out of the UN climate talks on Thursday in protest at what they say is the slow speed and lack of ambition of the negotiations in Warsaw. Wearing T-shirts reading "Volverermos" (We will return), around 800 people from organisations including Greenpeace, WWF, Oxfam, 350.org, Friends of the Earth, the Confederation and ActionAid, handed back their registration badges to the UN and left Poland's national stadium, where the talks are being held. "Movements representing people from every corner of the Earth have decided that the best use of our time is to voluntarily withdraw from the Warsaw climate talks.

This will be the first time ever that there has been a mass withdrawal from a COP," said a WWF spokesman. "Warsaw, which should have been an important step in the just transition to a sustainable future, is on track to deliver virtually nothing.
Rt. UN Climate Talks - COP19. This year's global climate talks (COP19) began under the shadow of Typhoon Haiyan which wreaked devastation in the Philippines. The Philippines government has firmly connected the super typhoon with climate change, and have urged an end to the deadlock that has been haunting climate talks for a number of years.

The results of the COP19 negotiations will shape the new global climate framework which is scheduled for 2015. At stake will be the lives and livelihoods of billions of people – the majority of who live in developing countries.
A Song of Our Warming Planet. UN climate jargon buster: a guide to deciphering the Warsaw talks. If you find acronyms and science confusing here’s a quick-reference list to help you – press CTRL-F and start searching By Louisa Casson and Jamie Peters The technical language and huge volume of acronyms can make following climate change negotiations challenging.
Interesting links: August – October 2013.

I had high hopes of regular blogging when we started the journey of the Thuthuka-project. But the second part of the year got much more busy than I initially anticipated, and thus my postings on the blog dropped right off. But now the teaching term has come to an end, students are preparing for exams, and I have moments for deeper breathing and looking up to the expansive blue sky for thinking inspiration.
Why does climate change adaptation in Africa ignore politics? Great broadside from Matthew Lockwood.
Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt. Introducing the Eldis Climate Change Resource Guide. Interesting links: July 2013. Coursera.org. Climate change said affecting global spread of infectious diseases. Climate change. Transitions in practice. Infographic: What Climate Change Means for Africa and Asia. iChange Video Competition - new deadline: May 15th.